Wow, interesting. I've probably heard of him then.

Here's some stuff from March on the live-action TV show. It sounds like it's exactly what I want to see - the seedy underbelly of the Star Wars universe.

PRODUCTION

Lucas: "I'm just starting to work on the scripts now for the live-action TV series. And now I'm working on the scripts for the first year of the live-action show. Yeah, I'm going to 100 episodes no matter what. What we do in our TV series is we write the entire first year and finish it as a script. Then we start getting ready to shoot it, then we start casting, and then we do it. We know where the whole first year is before we even start to work on it. I mean, I can do that because I'm financing the whole thing."

"So I've got it pegged out for 100 episodes, and I know exactly what I'm going to do and how I'm going to do it and what the risks are. They're an hour. It's a regular live-action TV series — you know, Law & Order."

"The live action show probably won't start until 2010". (source: cs.net)

CHARACTERS

Lucas: "The live-action has nobody there, because it's after Episode III, so everybody's dead, basically, or hiding somewhere. You hear about the Emperor, just like you do in Episode IV, but it's mostly about a whole different world. I mean, there are a million stories in the big city — you've only seen one of them."

"Some of the characters from the features find their way in there, so it's not completely divorced. It's as if we just went down the street and told a different story."

"You know, we were doing, I don't know, 24, and now we're going to move down the street here and do The Wire. Same thing, it's just different people doing the same thing in the same city. Yeah, all the same rules, all the same places, all the same stuff, and a lot of the same species. So it's a familiar world, it's just that you're seeing a completely different side of it."

CANON

Lucas is also supervising all scripts for both series, since they are considered part of the official canon and must adhere to the existing mythology. (source: cs.net)



FROSTY@COLLIDER's LIVE-ACTION SERIES REPORT

March 10 2008

source: Collider.com

Frosty@Collider.com recently posted a report consisting of known information about the Live-Action Series. As the Non-Skywalker, Deadwood-style series has been stated by Lucas and McCallum in interviews since 2005.

The Collider.com report does contain new information in the form of the series being influenced by HBO's Sopranos, The Star Wars Underworld, and how the Live-Action Series fits into Star Wars Canon.

SUMMARY

• The Clone Wars geared towards children while The Live-Action Series geared to adults.
• The Live-Action Series & The Clone Wars considered official canon of The Star Wars.
• Skywalker's Saga is finished, though a few movie characters "mixed in here and there".
• Features Gangsters and The Star Wars Underworld, perhaps even a crime family.
• The Live-Action Series is "Deadwood meets The Sopranos".
• HBO or Showtime considered as possible homes: Rated PG-13.

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May the swartz be with you.

I think that's old news.

What I heard and saw wasn't necessarily for children. There's a new (but old, in a way) dynamic to the series and Anakin has a padawan (previously not mentioned). The action scenes are freakin' awesome - better (IMO) than the movies.

PLUS, since it's "animated", even though you don't feel like you're watching animation, it's an amazing thing to view. It really takes you away.

It's just up to the narrative. And for that, I have no info.

That I can share :)

From the trailer, all the environments and technological bullshit look pretty real. Only the characters look like a cartoon.

Thanks for letting us in on the straight dope. :)

No problem.

I just hope it's as enjoyable as it appeared to me yesterday.

Let's keep our fingers crossed :thumb:

Just for clarification...did you do peyote prior to witnessing the force?

I was going to have to take my younger son to the movie anyway. This just made it more interesting for me. Thanks.

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it ain't 10 yet

Sunday is a normal day for me.

Why is Tony Pena Jr. still playing baseball? Royals are getting totally demolished. Save our souls Mike Aviles.

Man I saw the hottest MILF at the pool today. She kept bending over. Couldn't keep my eyes off her.

Then I had to leave just as this teenager with HUGE tits showed up. ****!

In fact, ALL the hot chicks showed up at the gym right when I was finishing up.

they were playing tease the virgin

Great, one that's married and the other is maybe underaged and the other's show up as you leave to make things worse, so you actually end your workout!, Wendler sounds like your setting yourself up for failure with the women.

Maybe, maybe not. Didn't see a dude hanging around her.

I love MILFs.

That trick ain' nothin' but a tease.